Category: Solo Piping

Scottish Pipers Professional 2025: Order of Play

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President Logan Tannock has announced the draws for the Scottish Pipers Association Professional Competition to be held this Saturday, April 12, in the Piping Centre, McPhater Street, Glasgow. The competition receives considerable sponsorship from the Piobaireachd Society. The P/A Piobaireachd is from 12.30pm. The draw: John Macdonald, Ben Duncan, Darach Urquhart, Brodie Watson-Massey, Steven Leask, Angus MacPhee, James MacPetrie, Cameron May, Sarah Muir, Gordon McCready, Eireann Ianetta-Mackay, Jamie Elder, Sandy…

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Editor’s Notebook: Piobaireachd Society Conference/ Uist & Barra/ Tribute Band/ Scottish Pipers

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One of the highlights at tomorrow’s Piobaireachd Society Conference will be a tune from Duncan MacGillivray. Duncan will be playing on John Macdonald, Inverness’s bagpipe (as above). It will help illustrate my talk on John Shone’s new book on Macdonald entitled ‘Life, Times and Music’. (Available this weekend on the PS webshop.) Duncan got the pipes from his father Donald. Donald was a student of Macdonald’s and the maestro gifted…

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Found! A Missing Piobaireachd by Master Composer John MacColl

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I recently had another very enjoyable and productive session in the Special Collections reading room of the National Library of Scotland (NLS) in Edinburgh.  The main purpose of this visit was to take another look at Robert Meldrum’s manuscript, where, in January, I had found a score entitled the Rout of Glenlivet, which I realised was the same tune the Piobaireachd Society had published in its Book 16 as Nameless…

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Duncan Johnstone Memorial Results

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This event for B and C grade pipers was held today in the Piping Centre in Glasgow. The promoter is the Competing Pipers Association in association with the Centre. Champion Piper winning the Jimmy McIntosh MBE Memorial Quaich: Jonathon Simpson. B Piob: 1 Jonathon Simpson 2 Andrew Smith 3 Bobby Allen 4 Alistair Brown 5 Luke Kennedy B MSR: 1 Luke Kennedy 2 Norman Gillies 3 Anna Kummerlöw 4 Ruairidh…

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Editor’s Notebook: Concern Over Worlds Juvenile Contests/ Senior Piobaireachd/ Pitlochry Band/ Brodie Picture

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I received this anonymous message earlier this week: ‘This segregation of the Worlds is all kinds of wrong. My son plays in the Juvenile grade and says the kids now feel like second class musicians, not worthy of sharing the big day with their adult heroes. ‘It does not happen at other majors and there is no good reason for it to happen at the Worlds (RSPBA ineptitude aside). My…

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